Former deputy headed for prison

A former Riverside County sheriff's deputy who fell in love with
a jail inmate has pleaded guilty to being his accomplice in a
conspiracy to kill two witnesses in his murder trial.

Angela Carol Parks, 38, was sentenced this month to 19 years and
four months in prison. She learned Friday she has credit for time
already served amounting to a little over six years.

Parks pleaded guilty July 16 as she was headed to trial on
charges stemming from her relationship with her jailhouse
boyfriend, Mexican Mafia member George Anthony Hernandez Jr.,
34.

Hernandez was tried separately for the 2004 slaying of Jorge
Ortiz in the parking lot of a bar in Riverside's Arlanza
neighborhood.

Hernandez was convicted and sentenced to death in January.

Prosecutors said Hernandez was given Mexican Mafia hierarchy
orders to kill his friend Ortiz, a police informant. Hernandez
lured Ortiz into the parking lot to look at a car and shot him in
the head. Hernandez was arrested three weeks later.

While at the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside,
Hernandez struck up a relationship with Parks.

It developed into criminal activity discovered when Parks'
then-fiance -- the stepson of a Riverside police detective -- found
one of Hernandez's letters in Parks' backpack.

In one letter, Hernandez referred to Parks as "baby girl" and
gave instructions about whom to call to have witnesses killed. He
provided the names, addresses and phone numbers of the
witnesses.

"Tell him I want both of the people smoked ASAP," the letter
said.

Hernandez also gave Parks the name and address of the Riverside
police homicide detective investigating his case.

Parks pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the solicitation to commit
murder as well as being an accessory to help a felon escape,
conspiracy to supply drugs to a person in custody, and supplying
drugs to a person in custody, among other admissions.

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